Thursday round-up

Posted Thu, March 20th, 2014 10:25 am by Amy Howe

Briefly:

In the Los Angeles Times, David Savage looks at a group of “potentially powerful” First Amendment cases pending at the Court this Term, observing both that “all of them com[e] from groups on the right” and that, “in nearly every case, liberal groups . . . are taking the opposing side, supporting state and federal laws that have come under attack for infringing upon the rights of conservatives.”

In an op-ed for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse considers “how far the Supreme Court should go to acknowledge the real-world context of its decisions.”

In an interview with ReasonTV (video), C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb discusses cameras at the Supreme Court (or the lack thereof).

At Cato at Liberty, Ilya Shapiro and Julio Colomba discuss the amicus brief that Cato joined in support of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has filed a cert. petition in which he asks the Court to weigh in on the constitutionality of a federal law that prohibits most states, including New Jersey, from licensing or authorizing sports gambling.

Aug. 2015

In a conversation with Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Justice Samuel Alito reflects upon (among other things) his arrival on the Court, recent First Amendment cases, the themes in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, and his love for baseball.